tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post8226193668668853197..comments2018-05-24T12:53:54.272+00:00Comments on BABYMETAL TRANSLATIONS <small>UNOFFICIAL</small>: Doki Doki * MorningDu Enkinoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-51258263778475052532017-05-08T12:41:16.898+00:002017-05-08T12:41:16.898+00:00Well, yes, but it was only a bit ambiguous, so I w...Well, yes, but it was only a bit ambiguous, so I wanted to be sure ;) Thank you very much for clearing it!<br /><br />F. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-30814303431301253502017-05-08T03:47:37.195+00:002017-05-08T03:47:37.195+00:00Thank you for comment.
I&#39;m sorry it&#39;s amb...Thank you for comment. <br />I&#39;m sorry it&#39;s ambiguous. I mean &quot;I dislike pretending not to know&quot;. <br />Du Enkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06961362930024656652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-51966474960587001132017-05-07T15:04:49.417+00:002017-05-07T15:04:49.417+00:00Hi again du-enki-san,
as I told you the other day...Hi again du-enki-san,<br /><br />as I told you the other day I&#39;m re-reading your translations &amp; notes and I will make some questions and comments. (Not too many, I hope ;) ) About this one, I have this doubt about the line &quot;Pretending not to know, I dislike&quot; (Shira-nai furi wa kirai kirai). I dislike... what? Is that &quot;I dislike pretending not to know&quot;? Or the object of the disliking is unknown?<br /><br />Saludos,<br /><br />Fernando :) <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-48200331068254422382016-12-15T11:08:03.395+00:002016-12-15T11:08:03.395+00:00Thank you for comment.
The reason I chose &quot;b...Thank you for comment. <br />The reason I chose &quot;bangs&quot; is not because it is American English. The word &quot;fringe&quot; has some meanings other than &quot;front hair&quot;, and I thought it might be ambiguous to people like me who don&#39;t know English well.<br />Du Enkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06961362930024656652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-71657340677416770952016-12-14T22:02:48.947+00:002016-12-14T22:02:48.947+00:00Hi there, just a quick comment. The lyric Maegami ...Hi there, just a quick comment. The lyric Maegami pattsun, which you translate as &quot;My bangs end make a straight line&quot;, is actually American English. UK English would be more like &quot;My fringe makes a straight line&quot;. Of course you may be deliberately translating into American, but I thought I&#39;d mention it anyway. Good site, by the way :-)Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16326583072285657896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-5762321194083344412016-05-06T23:42:04.272+00:002016-05-06T23:42:04.272+00:00I&#39;m glad my blog helps you, and I hope you&#39...I&#39;m glad my blog helps you, and I hope you&#39;ll be able to sing along with BABYMETAL.<br />Du Enkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06961362930024656652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-65016100467440221782016-05-06T05:30:42.882+00:002016-05-06T05:30:42.882+00:00as an american who will probably never know how to...as an american who will probably never know how to read japanese, i just want to say thank for creating this blog! i&#39;ve been listening to this band for a couple of years now and mostly just pretend to sing along by saying a bunch of jibberish. it&#39;s nice to have the romaji lyrics so i have some hope of actually being able to sing along!Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01640102553180861280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-26522297462313686042016-04-24T16:20:56.768+00:002016-04-24T16:20:56.768+00:00Thank you for explaining. Thank you for explaining. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-81278069221865929032016-04-18T23:46:04.032+00:002016-04-18T23:46:04.032+00:00Thank you for comment.
I&#39;ve fixed some notati...Thank you for comment. <br />I&#39;ve fixed some notations (&quot;moonin&quot;, &quot;chocci&quot;, &amp; few hyphenations). However, there can be some different romaji notations. <br /><br />I write long vowel &quot;ô&quot; as &quot;oo&quot; because it has two morae and this is important in relation to the melody, but some people write it as &quot;ou&quot; because it is written as &quot;おう&quot; (&quot;こう&quot;, etc.) in Japanese. There are some other discrepancies like this in romaji notation, and there is no standard rules for word dividing (wakachigaki) in Japanese.<br /><br />I write an English word in all uppercase if it is written in romaji in the official (Japanese) lyric, and I never use English spelling in the romaji column in other cases, but I don&#39;t know what others do as to this. <br /><br />In the official lyrics, some lines are omitted because they are repeated many times or for unknown reasons. Anyway, once they have been registered as such with JASRAC, no one is allowed to present them differently. <br />Du Enkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06961362930024656652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-39010112170259707162016-04-18T13:06:42.282+00:002016-04-18T13:06:42.282+00:00Thank you. I was sure, there was a mistake in liri...Thank you. I was sure, there was a mistake in liric card. I&#39;m glad, I could help. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-29976843424040415942016-04-17T18:15:06.528+00:002016-04-17T18:15:06.528+00:00Thank you for correcting.
His name is &quot;Motona...Thank you for correcting.<br />His name is &quot;Motonari&quot;. I mistook the reading of kanji. I&#39;ve fixed it.Du Enkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06961362930024656652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-75294380054795875472016-04-17T15:47:28.339+00:002016-04-17T15:47:28.339+00:00In european edition of the album there is a liric ...In european edition of the album there is a liric card in romaji and one of the authors of this song is credited as Motonari Murakawa not Yasunari Murakawa. Is there a mistake in this liric card? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-40929675967679151652014-12-10T21:41:54.503+00:002014-12-10T21:41:54.503+00:00Yes. It may be &quot;Take your time to do the make...Yes. It may be &quot;Take your time to do the make-up!&quot;.<br />But I think it should mean &quot;to make oneself up&quot; or &quot;to make oneself presentable&quot; because a Japanese (early) teenage girl applies very little cosmetics when going to school. Most of her make-up time is used for doing her hair. Lip-gloss is the only, if any, cosmetic she wears (and, if she makes her eyebrows narrow (shaved), she may use eyebrow pencil, too).Du Enkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06961362930024656652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-43049847016402748252014-12-10T15:29:36.979+00:002014-12-10T15:29:36.979+00:00I&#39;m neither native japanese nor native english...I&#39;m neither native japanese nor native english, so I&#39;m wondering about the following:<br />Does &#39;Awate-zu MAKE UP!&#39; really mean &#39;Take your time to make up!&#39; or is it more like &#39;Take your time to do the make up!&#39; or &#39;... to put the make up on!&#39; ?<br />The translation &#39;...to make up&#39; gives me the feeling that she takes her time making up a story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-19162947372012447192014-09-18T00:00:54.813+00:002014-09-18T00:00:54.813+00:00I&#39;m sorry &quot;actually&quot; was misleading....I&#39;m sorry &quot;actually&quot; was misleading.<br />I meant she took an English word &quot;version up&quot; as Japanese word &quot;バージョンアップ&quot;. But what she actually pronounced can be expressed only by well defined set of phonetic symbols. Therefore I follow the official lyrics.Du Enkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06961362930024656652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-47437052972374680422014-09-17T00:13:12.298+00:002014-09-17T00:13:12.298+00:00Haha ok my mistake.
That explains the note a bit b...Haha ok my mistake.<br />That explains the note a bit better too.<br />If &quot;tuudei wa baajon-appu&quot; is what she&#39;s actually saying(Yet not mentioned in full anywhere) wouldn&#39;t it be better to have that as the lyric and then explain what &quot;TODAY wa VERSION UP&quot; is as the note? Seems rather confusing.<br /><br />Thanks for the info.Boogsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-9251759050690067842014-09-16T13:36:30.756+00:002014-09-16T13:36:30.756+00:00Thank you for your comment.
As I wrote in [About T...Thank you for your comment.<br />As I wrote in [About This Blog], most Japanese CD packages contain the lyric cards, and there are some web sites that present the lyrics of Japanese songs. They are official because they all are the same as the ones kept in the copyright agency&#39;s archive. I have only romanized them.<br /><br />In the romaji lyric column, the (English) words that are written in upper case are written in alphabet in the original lyrics (small capitals correspond to lower case). Instead of &quot;TODAY wa VERSION UP&quot;, she actually sings &quot;tuudei wa baajon-appu&quot; as Japanese.<br /><br />Though traditionally &quot;r&quot; is used, there is no L/R distinction in Japanese. Wikipedia tells Japanese &quot;r&quot; is pronounced like &quot;tt&quot; of &quot;better&quot; in American pronunciation (tap and flap). Therefore Japanese &quot;rin&quot; may sound like &quot;ding&quot; to you.Du Enkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06961362930024656652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-79313329443071031852014-09-16T01:35:49.339+00:002014-09-16T01:35:49.339+00:00Hey
Fantastic blog!
I only discovered BABYMETAL 2...Hey<br /><br />Fantastic blog!<br />I only discovered BABYMETAL 2 or 3 weeks ago, and the romaji lyrics you have here are really helping me learn their songs.<br />So much to read, so much information, so glad I found this site. :)<br /><br />Speaking of &#39;glad&#39;, I think you may be incorrect with the line: TODAY wa VERSION UP!<br />I believe it&#39;s actually: GOOD-DAY, WE&#39;RE GLAD YOU&#39;RE UP!<br />Which fits the song perfectly.<br />I can&#39;t hear the word VERSION at all, but I could be wrong though, it&#39;s kind of difficult to make out.<br /><br />Also I believe they&#39;re saying Ding, not Rin/Ring.<br />Towards the end of the song, and especially live you can hear the &#39;D&#39; sound quite clearly.Boogsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-53730346798007382612013-11-16T22:55:21.283+00:002013-11-16T22:55:21.283+00:00And one more:
For me and perhaps for most Japanese...And one more:<br />For me and perhaps for most Japanese, &quot;choo yabai&quot; sounds like &quot;being so exciting that one may lose oneself and get into some unfavorable state&quot;, but the speakers of these words seem to mean no such danger. I confirmed this in some cases of &quot;yabai kawaii&quot;.Du Enkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06961362930024656652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-85877640474544459602013-11-16T21:25:02.804+00:002013-11-16T21:25:02.804+00:00Thank you for your useful suggestion.
I think &quo...Thank you for your useful suggestion.<br />I think &quot;Oh my god!&quot; is a good translation of &quot;Yabai!&quot; for young Americans readers. But I&#39;m afraid that, for non-English people, it would merely change one difficulty to another. The point I want the readers to know is that young people use the word used for bad surprise also for good surprise. So I translate literally and annotate much.Du Enkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06961362930024656652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932420748080307730.post-1044472594160461542013-11-16T05:38:16.202+00:002013-11-16T05:38:16.202+00:00I like to translate &#39;yabai&#39; as &quot;Oh my...I like to translate &#39;yabai&#39; as &quot;Oh my god&#39; (or OMG) when used as an exclamation just because it manages to reflect a similar ambiguity - it can be used both for something positive and something negative.<br />For &#39;chou yabai&#39; I&#39;d probably translate it as &#39;Like, oh my god&#39;. &#39;Like&#39; in this case is used for emphasis, and similar to &#39;chou&#39;, is also used by younger people (this usage was popularised by the Valley girls of the 80s in America).Skobanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08336915007809765219noreply@blogger.com